Monica Frenden

Maddie's Director of Feline Lifesaving, Austin Pets Alive!

Monica Frenden is the Director of Feline Lifesaving at Austin Pets Alive! and is an instructor for the American Pets Alive!'s Maddie’s® Lifesaving Academy. Before teaching the Austin No Kill Model to students, she founded a trap-neuter-return organization in rural Illinois in 2008 and pioneered one of the nation's first, and largest, barn cat programs. In 2012, she joined Austin Pets Alive! where she served as the Cat Program Manager, led her team to an 88% growth in cat adoptions and helped Austin achieve a citywide 98% live release rate for cats. Monica is a frequent speaker and advisor on innovative ways to save every cat, including cats with feline leukemia, community cats, and shelter cats in need of medical care.